Pure Wit | Upright Brewing Company

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Pours a murky yellow with a foamy bone head that settles to a partial film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is of malt, grain, wheat, citrus fruit, citrus juice, and spice aromas. Taste is much the same with grain, wheat, citrus, and spice flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of spice bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer that is tasty, light, and easy to drink.

Taste had a lot of lemon acidity as well. Quite an acidic / dry beer, like what you'd expect in a gueuze! Very light malt bill.

This tasted as if it spent a lot of time in oak barrels to me, though as far as I know it's not barrel aged. I quite enjoyed it, it doesn't have a particularly complex profile but it's light and acidic and enjoyable to sip.

Pours a pale shade of yellow. Quite cloudy. The head is big and fizzy. It dissipates pretty quickly, despite its aggressive beginnings. No lacing. The aroma is light and lemony. There's a bit of coriander and some wheat, but it's quite mild. The beer is very dry, and I'm only picking up light spicing in the taste. Lemons, peppercorn, mild wheat spice. There's a touch of malt sweetness to it, but it's largely lacking in grain flavor. Orange peel is probably in there. Light, grassy hops. Mouthfeel is effervescent. Carbonation is pretty high. Very light on the palate. Quite crisp. I appreciate the thought of doing a straightforward, low abv witbier, but this beer just lacks the fresh grain flavors and enticing spices of better versions of the style. It's definitely easy to drink and refreshing but not much more than that.

750ml bottle poured into a snifter. The brew appears a clear yellow color. The carbonation visually is really effervescent with a huge white head composed of big bubbles that fills the glass and maintains its froth atop. A swirl emits 3 fingers of froth back to the surface.

The aroma consists of wheat, coriander and and unfortunate amount of sulfur. Some lemony fruit aspect is enjoyable coupled with a trace spiced aspect of yeast and clove.

The taste includes notes of wheat and coriander. That mild sulfur aspect persists from the nose into the flavor profile subsided a bit from a lemony addition. Some spiciness of clove mixes with other yeast attributes smelling somewhat like bubblegum. As the brew warms up mild earthy and grass character emerges with apple or pear skin in the aftertaste.

This is a light bodied brew that is overly effervescent with carbonation that distracts a bit but is ok once it settles down. This is not bad but not something I would buy again. This was a bit of a let down. It was recommended to me as a lover of berliner weisse and wits. I was told this was sour mashed and a sort of hybrid of both styles. Instead, this was nothing like a berliner and not that great of a wit.

Overall impression was that it was fairly grainy and basic, some lemony citrus zest traces with a wheat base that took center stage. Mild coriander and phenolic spice builds in the background. Murky yellow with visible carb trails and a creamy thin cap of white foam. Adding the yeast did improve the mouthfeel, but added little to the flavor. Body was light with a smoothness from the wheat and oats. Pretty utilitarian considering this a seasonal annual release.